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South Haven, Mich., January 9, 1888. 



Since the preparation and forwarding of the report of the Committee on No- 

 menclature I have received the following from Edmund H. Hart, Federal Point, 

 Florida: 



" There is little to contribute in the matter of nomenclature from this state. 



"In the Nurserymen's Convention at Palatka last July it was decided that 

 the Ereobothrya Japonica, generally and erroneously called Japan plum, be in fut- 

 ure designated by its proper name — Loquat. 



An imported and anonymous citron exhibited by Rev. Lyman Phelps, said to 

 be valuable for preserving and palatable in a fresh state, was named the Lyman 

 citron. 



A motion was made to call Diospyros Kaki, Kaki, instead of Japan persim- 

 mon ; but it was not adopted, after the objection made that, being an undeniable 

 persimmon, and of Japanese origin, it is rea^y entitled to its present name. The 

 nomenclature of this is, however, so barbarous and so inextricably confused that a 

 sweeping revision is loudly called for, and will probably be attempted soon. 



(Signed), Edmund H. Hart. 



W. H. Ragan, Secretary American. Horticultural Society : 



Please add the foregoing to the report of the Committee on Nomenclature re- 

 cently sent yt.u. Very n sp?ttfnlly, T. T. Lyon, 



Chill man Committee on Nomenclature. 



EEPOPtT ON EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



BY HEKBERT MY'RICK, OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



I am asked to contribute a word in relation to experiment stations. 

 This subject becomes of enormous consequence by reason of the passage of 

 the Hatch exjDeriment station act, under which an appropriation of $15,000 

 annually is expected for each state, to bd devoted to conducting an agricul- 

 tural experiment station in connection with the agricultural college. This 

 act says that the appropriation shall be made annually. It is not a perpetual 

 appropriation; congress must provide for it every year. This has been 

 pointed out as a great weakness in the law, but to my mind it is one of its 

 strongest points. The stations established under the Hatch act must attend 

 strictly to business, and do the work that the farmers want done, or they 

 will not satisfy the public demand, and the result will be that congress will 

 withdraw the appropriation. 



But let the stations do good work, and the work that is most needed, 

 and there will be no doubt that th^ necessary funds will be forthcoming 

 without fail every year. Thus the stations will ba put on their mettle, and 

 the abuses and errors which have grown up in some states by the adminis- 

 tration of the agricultural college act of 1862 will be avoided. The 115,000 

 annually to each state will not be permitted to be gobbled up by any third- 

 rate literary institution, which may have been successful in gulping down 



